AmiGO 2: Term Details for "pigment metabolic process" (GO:0042440)

Accession: GO:0042440
Name: pigment metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: pigment metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving pigment, any general or particular coloring matter in living organisms, e.g. melanin. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:jl
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0042440 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: goslim_drosophila; goslim_pir
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to pigment metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to pigment metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for pigment metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
pigment metabolic process	is_a	metabolic process (GO:0008152)

subject	relation	object
aurone metabolic process (GO:0051550)	is_a	pigment metabolic process
flavone metabolic process (GO:0051552)	is_a	pigment metabolic process
pigment catabolic process (GO:0046149)	is_a	pigment metabolic process
heme metabolic process (GO:0042168)	is_a	pigment metabolic process
pigment biosynthetic process (GO:0046148)	is_a	pigment metabolic process
pigment metabolic process involved in pigmentation (GO:0043474)	is_a	pigment metabolic process
anthocyanin-containing compound metabolic process (GO:0046283)	is_a	pigment metabolic process
melanin metabolic process (GO:0006582)	is_a	pigment metabolic process
phlobaphene metabolic process (GO:0051558)	is_a	pigment metabolic process

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